Cleveland RTA lands $2.2 million for new trolley and bus service (Brooklyn: 2014, schools)

[lisa12230]

WOW!!!!!..this is from todays PD:

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- RTA has landed $2.2 million for a slew of new services in and around downtown Cleveland, including a night-time trolley service and a route serving the rock hall and science center.
The money covers just one year of operation. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority hopes that Gov.-elect John Kasich's administration will support funding the services for two years after that.
More than 40 businesses and public bodies backed RTA's request for the money.
The money comes from a $10 million pot doled out this week by the Ohio Department of Transportation for transit statewide.
It's part of the Next Generation fund, established by outgoing Gov. Ted Strickland in October. The money is focused on economic development and getting people to job centers.

Strickland committed one year of funding under a three-year plan. It now falls to the Kasich camp to decide how two, subsequent years of ODOT money will be spent.
"We'll have to wait until the (new ODOT) director is seated and is able to evaluate all these kinds of projects," Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said Friday.
RTA officials are still crafting details of the new services, including launch dates. The new routes are:
"C-Line" downtown trolley: It will run from 7 to 11 p.m. weekdays and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekends.
It extends service offered by two, free trolley routes that ply downtown routes during the day.
"Rock-Line" weekend trolley: It will serve the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Great Lakes Science Center, via Public Square.
The service will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Campus Connector: This route will serve students, workers and residents between Cleveland State University and Cuyahoga Community College Metro Campus.
Students taking classes at both schools will be able to move more quickly between campuses, RTA said.
Southwest Connector, Southeast Connector and Steelyard Direct: The routes will serve riders going to work, hospitals and other destinations in areas including Ohio City, Old Brooklyn and the Steelyard Commons shopping center.

[citydudeallover]

Wow I missed that , while I knew of a couple of new routes started ( east & west)
that really only serve areas that had service cancelled to have limit service along the same route.
The trolley service downtown can only be a plus, to the areas stated in your post (Lisa) out west . The rail line now from Tower City through the flats to the Rock Hall
still forces people to walk across the Shoreway Freeway Bridge to North Coast Harbor
crossing the onramp of said Freeway.
I always hoped for a classic old style Street Car Rail running up and down East 9th Street ( AKA Rock and Roll Blvd.) to the North Coast Harbor Just picture going
up the East 9th St. Hill in a Street Car ,( Toronto we want our Street Cars Back)
and then again why not have old fashion JUKEBOXES up and down East 9th Street
that people could stop at and drop a time , and hear thier favorite tunes , while they stroll down to the Rock Hall

[shakeababy]

wow, so happy for the money! and the C-line trolley is totally needed.

Such a shame that they Wont Invest In A Detroit Avenue Tramway!!!!!! grrrrr

Especiallly before the Gay Games in 2014........

[Flee to the Cleve]

Originally Posted by lisa12230

WOW!!!!!..this is from todays PD:

"C-Line" downtown trolley: It will run from 7 to 11 p.m. weekdays and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekends.
It extends service offered by two, free trolley routes that ply downtown routes during the day.
"Rock-Line" weekend trolley: It will serve the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Great Lakes Science Center, via Public Square.
The service will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

These are long overdue, the demand is there. Good news!

[Traveler87]

Awesome stuff. Thanks for the details, Lisa.

[xanthines]

Any bets on whether or not Kasich will continue funding beyond a year? He wasn't too thrilled about the 3C train, but I admit that was a very different beast.

[Traveler87]

Originally Posted by xanthines

Any bets on whether or not Kasich will continue funding beyond a year? He wasn't too thrilled about the 3C train, but I admit that was a very different beast.

Who knows. They wonder the same thing in Cincinnat with their $128 million dollar streetcar project.